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Yeah, they certainly do.
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Yeah, they certainly do.
Ah ok then, well surely that's why the figures are so high there.
Personally, I think it's a national disgrace that people need food banks in 2017.
What would happen to the food if they were closed?
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The only thing I would say is that if you make them available they will get used. I am a little unclear as to how they set access criteria and validate those who are using them.
Doctors and social workers isn't it? Maybe even the police?
Don't think there's much point. You and I are not only on different pages, we're reading different books in different languages, in entirely separate universes at different points in time.
There's just no point in continuing to talk to each other.
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A few reports I have read mention lax controls.
Ditto — Portsmouth South is usually a Con / Lib Dem contest, but in 2015 the Lib Dem vote collapsed. Now Labour are claiming they're the only safe way of ousting the incumbent Conservative candidate.
I fear The Lib/Lab voters will cancel each other out and the Con candidate will run away with it…
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I think the public don't trust May on security anymore...
I expect it wouldn't get bought.
UK supermarkets don't donate waste food. They use it to produce electricity via biomass instead. There's a net benefit to the business, and no worries about litigation if anyone gets sick off out-of-date food.
We've got a collection box at the front of our shop for customers to donate food to food banks. Get about £500 of food a week donated.
Labour had a 7% vote in 2015 and that was on the back of picking up significat votes from the Lib Dem collapse - I can't see them even remotely challenging the Tories here even if the mood of the nation was significantly against the Tories.
Bit of a joke really as unless the constituency gets together as one with a cohesive vote there is no real democracy in action here lol.
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I doubt the Tories will win with 45%. Blair didn't manage that in 1997.
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They are very controlled. You need a note from a variety of organisations, only in the Tory press are they handed out without any authorisation.
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The lot around about me still have places to put food for organisations.
Most probable outcome is a Tory victory, that said with FPTP and tactical/not tactical voting blunt poll analysis is a poor predictor, especially when differences are around 10%
Plus they always underestimate the Conservative vote.
I'm less sure about that, in previous times the "Shy Tory" vote was/has been relevant, this time around many were openly advocating Conservatives/May mostly based on leadership. We've seen polling and discussion moving away from that, hard to say if those Tory's saying they wont vote or will pick anything other than May/Corbyn are for real at this point, some of May's choices seem very odd for a Tory PM.
For some kippers around here hell will freeze over before they vote tory including myself i know loads who used to vote labour and went with ukip last time, but i was shocked too see a life long labour supporter an ex miner no less saying he was going to vote tory on the local news the other day
one described corbyn as a communist.And that result is based on adding 7-8% to Conservatives from the raw figures. That may or may not be right
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